Show No. 24 is a Friday Full Edition featuring a two-part interview with Nick Pollack, founder, podcaster, livestreamer and analyst of PitcherList.com... in Part 1 (2:15), Nick and PD discuss his weekly starting pitcher Top-100 list, starting with newly listed starters like PIT RHP Paul Skenes and CLE RHP Gavin Williams ... and in Part 2 (1:17:50),…

Show No. 23 is a Friday Full Edition featuring a two-part interview with Joe Orrico, from the 90 Feet From Home Patreon and podcast... in Part 1 (2:55), Joe and PD discuss hitters including Cedric Mullins, Richie Palacios and Colt Keith... and in Part 2 (1:13:15), Joe tells PD about pitchers including CLE RHP Tanner Bibee, HOU RHP Hunter Brown, the…

Show No. 22 is a Friday Full Edition featuring a two-part interview with Mike Kurland, from MLBplayingtime.com... in Part 1 (2:50), Mike and PD discuss playing time for ATL, what happens in BOS PT with David Hamilton out of the lineup, PT questions in KC about Kyle Isbel and Michael Massey, and Jonny DeLuca's PT in TAM... and in Part 2 (1:36:30), M…

Show No. 21 is a Friday Full Edition featuring a two-part interview with Jeff Zimmerman, from Rotographs, the Launch Angle podcast, and The Process fantasy baseball manual... in Part 1 (2:30), Jeff and PD discuss the effects of rest days on hitters and applying pitch modeling to fantasy baseball... and in Part 2 (1:33:45), Jeff tells PD about hitte…

James and Steve sample a hoppy raw beer brewed with only wheat malt as the grain bill.By James Spencer

Show No. 20 is a Friday Full Edition featuring a two-part interview with Todd Zola, from Mastersball, ESPN, Rotowire and SiriusXM... in Part 1 (2:55), Todd and PD discuss the addition of Negro Leagues players to the official MLB stats, and a new draft to get those players and other alltime greats onto fantasy teams, plus a look at the early drop in…

Show No. 19 is a Friday Full Edition featuring a two-part interview with Lenny Melnick, from of Lennymelnickfantasysports.com... in Part 1 (2:40), Lenny and PD discuss the good old days of fantasy baseball, including the earliest experts' leagues ... and in Part 2 (1:19:50), Lenny tells PD about assessing player disappointments, including Andrew Be…

Steve shares the most simple beer that he's ever brewed – a deliciously drinkable cold-conditioned Kölsch.By James Spencer

Show No. 18 is a Friday Full Edition featuring a two-part interview with Steve Gardner, Senior Fantasy Editor and baseball writer at USA Today ... in Part 1 (3:25), Steve tells PD about players in his experts' leagues, including Bo Bichette, Elly de la Cruz, Jackson Merrill, and Javier Assad ... and in Part 2 (1:41:05), Steve and PD discuss the new…

Show No. 17 is a Friday Full Edition featuring a two-part interview with Ariel Cohen, from the ATC projection/valuation systems, the Beat the Shift podcast and Rotoballers... in Part 1 (2:55), Ariel and PD discuss pre-season and in-season strategies for managing SP injury risk, as well as player valuations ... and in Part 2 (1:52:45), Ariel and PD …

James shares a delicious Belgian-style Single brewed on the stovetop in a small volume batch.By James Spencer

Show No. 16 is a Friday Full Edition featuring a two-part interview with Larry Schechter, from the author of 'The History of Fantasy Sports'... in Part 1 (2:25), Larry and PD discuss his leagues and injuries, the early days of fantasy sports ... and in Part 2 (1:29:30), Larry tells PD about the growth of fantasy sports, and the entrepreneurs who dr…

Show No. 15 is a Friday Full Edition featuring an expert interview (2:35) with Todd Zola, from Mastersball, ESPN, Rotowire and SiriusXM... Todd and PD talk about the relationship between flyball distance and HRs, about using the latest stats and probabilities, and about what's up with Kevin Gausman ... plus a new approach to Boons and Banes! ... La…

Show No. 14 is a Friday Full Edition featuring a two-part interview with Jason Collette, from Rotowire and the Sleeper and the Bust podcast... in Part 1 (2:25), Jason and PD discuss the injuries rocking his fantasy teams, player news including Amed Rosario's fast start and Victor Scott's slow start ... and in Part 2 (1:44:05), Jason tells PD about …

James and Steve sample a hoppy raw beer inspired by traditional Scandinavian brewing techniques.By James Spencer

Show No. 13 is a Friday Two-Tout Extra-Full Edition featuring an interview (2:50) with Dr. Peter Chalmers, professor of orthopaedic surgery at the University of Utah, an expert on baseball-related injuries to the elbow and shoulder, and a practicing surgeon ... Dr. Chalmers and PD discuss Tommy John surgery, the UCL, its connection to pitching mech…

Show No. 12 is a Friday Full Edition featuring a two-part interview with Jeff Erickson, from Rotowire and SiriusXM fantasy sports... in Part 1 (2:35), Jeff and PD discuss managing through injuries, extreme strategies in drafts, and being OK with being outbid in FAAB ... and in Part 2 (1:22:30), Jeff tells PD about the usefulness of including coache…

James and Steve go head-to-head to see who can brew the best stout with oats.By James Spencer

Show No. 11 is a Friday Full Edition featuring a two-part interview with Joe Orrico, from sportsethos.com and the Fantasy MLB Today podcast... in Part 1 (3:00), Joe tells PD why he focuses on shallow leagues, and analyzes hitters including Esteury Ruiz, Jared Walsh, Michael Conforto, and early-season 1.000-OPSers ... and in Part 2 (1:39:05), Joe te…

Show No. 10 is a Roundtable Edition featuring interviews with Ray Murphy, from BaseballHQ.com, and Todd Zola, from Mastersball, ESPN, Rotowire and SiriusXM... in Part 1 (2:05), the panel talks about end-of-spring and Opening Day storylines, including changes in Shohei Ohtani's fantasy value, Jackson Holliday's demotion, JD Martinez's signing, and m…

James and Steve blend a tasty extract pale ale with Fresca to get a light and very drinkable summer beverage.By James Spencer

Show No. 9 is a Two-tout Tuesday Edition featuring interviews with Mike Gianella, from Baseball Prospectus, and Doug Dennis, bullpens columnist at BHQ.com... In our first expert interview (2:10), Mike and PD discuss the no-starting pitcher strategy at Tout Wars-AL, his BP series on bid limits, touching on hitters like Josh Lowe, Josh Jung, and Este…

Show No. 8 is a Friday Full Edition featuring interviews with Paul Sporer, from Rotographs and the Sleeper and the Bust podcast ... in Part 1 (2:15), Paul and PD discuss fantasy pitcher breakouts, including George Kirby, Hunter Brown and Yu Darvish ... and in Part 2 (1:43:05), Paul tells PD about fantasy hitter breakouts, including Oneil Cruz, Anth…

Show No. 7 is a Two-Tout Tuesday Edition featuring interviews with Nick Pollack, from PitcherList.com, and Ed DeCaria, director of research at BaseballHQ.com... In our first expert interview (1:35), Nick and PD discuss some of the starting pitchers he's been talking about over at PitcherList.com, like Eury Perez of MIA, Anthony Desclafani of MIN an…

James and Steve try a delicious mead made with an ingredient kit from Vermont meadery groennfell.com.By James Spencer

Show No. 6 is a Friday Full Edition, coming to you on Thursday because of Tout Wars weekend... We'll have interviews with Peter Kreutzer, from the Rotoman Guide at Substack and the Rotoman Fantasy Baseball Guide, and Matt Beagle, Strat-o-matic analyst at BHQ.com... In our first expert interview (2:30), Peter and PD discuss Tout Wars and drafting ph…

Show No. 5 is a Two-Tout Tuesday Edition featuring interviews with Jeff Zimmerman, from Rotographs, the Launch Angle podcast, and The Process fantasy baseball manual, and Jock Thompson, team analyst at BHQ.com... in our first expert interview (2:20), Jeff and PD discuss player analysis including a "modern lineup" in HOU, the possibility of Esteury …

Show No. 4 is a Friday Full Edition featuring interviews with Ron Shandler, founder of BHQ.com and the BABS fantasy baseball system, and the author of the new book Fantasy Expert... and Scott Pianowski of Yahoo! Sports... In our first expert interview (2:40), PD asks Ron about his book: how the fantasy baseball industry got rolling, how he rolled w…

Show No. 3 is a Friday Full Edition, featuring interviews with Ariel Cohen, the ATC projection/valuation systems Fangraphs and the Beat the Shift podcast ... and Ryan Bloomfield, Speculator columnist and analyst at BHQ.com... In our first expert interview (2:20), Ariel and PD discuss Ariel's drafts so far, how he manages the ATC projections system,…

James and Steve taste a wonderfully spicy and drinkable wheat beer that features the flavors of winter celebrations.By James Spencer

Show No. 2 is our first Two-Tout Tuesday Edition of 2024, featuring interviews with Todd Zola, from Mastersball, ESPN, Rotowire, and SiriusXM, and Brant Chesser of BaseballHQ.com... In our first expert interview (1:50), Todd and PD discuss why he took Kyle Tucker second overall in a recent draft, the effects on pitchers when they change divisions, …

Show No. 1 is a Friday Full Edition featuring interviews with Gene McCaffrey, fantasy baseball writer at The Athletic, and Brent Hershey, co-GM, BaseballHQ.com... in our first expert interview (2:15), Gene and PD discuss some of the hitters he'll be featuring in his columns at The Athletic, including Yainer Diaz, Vlad Guerrero, Zach Gelof, Francisc…

Steve goes back to the old ways of homebrewing to brew a deliciously drinkable basic English Pale Ale.By James Spencer

Steve serves up a deliciously dark, sessionable Sweet Stout brewed with brown sugar and molasses.By James Spencer

James and Steve sample a beautiful and delicious beer meant to pay homage to older American recipes.By James Spencer

James and Steve sample a small batch of German Red Beer that was brewed with cherry smoked malt and lager yeast.By James Spencer

Inspired by a trip to Canada, James and Steve taste a classic beer style from Kentucky brewed with corn.By James Spencer

James and Steve go back to homebrew basics with a deliciously dark brew featuring balanced roast and bitterness.By James Spencer

James and Steve taste a salute to Anchor Steam Beer that has been fermented on the warm porch with a blend of Kveik yeasts.By James Spencer

James and Steve taste a delicious reddish hoppy beer brewed with local honey.By James Spencer

In our annual end-of-season roundtable, PD is joined by Todd Zola, from Mastersball, ESPN, SiriusXM and Rotowire and Ray Murphy, the co-GM, projections meister, analyst and writer at BaseballHQ.com. In Part 1 (0:50), PD, Todd and Ray have their top stories from the year for MLB and fantasy, and key takeaways for 2024... In Part 2 (25:40), they look…

Steve takes a shot at creating a Chicago hot dog beer using a tincture of ingredients added at bottling time.By James Spencer

Show No. 34 is a Friday Full Edition featuring an interview with Gene McCaffrey of the Wise Guy of fantasy baseball and a columnist at The Athletic... in Part 1 (2:05), Gene and PD discuss items in the news and SPs for 2024 ... and in Part 2 (1:34:40), Gene and PD discuss post-hype hitters, the 2024 catcher scene, his Boons and Banes for 2024, and …

Matt Giovanisci of Brew Cabin shares a deliciously hoppy beer that's part lager, part brut IPA and all tasty.By James Spencer

Show No. 33 is a Friday Full Edition talkin' prospects with Eric Longenhagen, lead prospect analyst at Fangraphs... in Part 1 (2:35), Eric and PD discuss which organizations improved between the draft and the deadline, and why teams are pushing young prospects aggressively ... and in Part 2 (1:31:55), Eric and PD discuss which prospects might and m…

Show No. 32 is a Friday Full Edition featuring an interview with Nick Pollack of PitcherList.com... in Part 1 (2:40), Nick and PD discuss the tools at PitcherList.com, especially their " Pitch Level Value" metric ... and in Part 2 (1:54:10), Nick and PD discuss Nick's weekly top-100 SPs, with a special focus on young starters like George Kirby, Bry…

Show No. 31 is a Friday Full Edition featuring an interview with Paul Sporer of Fangraphs, the Sleeper and the Bust podcast... in Part 1 (3:20), Paul and PD discuss start-sit decisions for pitchers, drafting "name" closers, and analyzing pitchers with big 1H-2H xFIP changes ... and in Part 2 (1:50:10), Paul and PD discuss 2H hitters, hold or fold o…

James and Steve taste a very hoppy pale ale made with local honey and peach juice from the steam juicer.By James Spencer

Show No. 30 is a Friday Full Edition featuring an interview with Ariel Cohen of Rotographs, the Beat the Shift podcast, and the ATC player projection and valuation systems... in Part 1 (2:45), Ariel and PD discuss rest-of-season player projections and how to use them to work the categories ... and in Part 2 (51:20), Ariel and PD discuss setting lin…

Show No. 29 is a Friday Full Edition featuring an interview with Todd Zola of Mastersball, ESPN, Rotowire, SiriusXM... in Part 1 (2:35), Todd and PD discuss CIN LHP Andrew Abbott and major-league equivalents, and the biases that can affect us as we assess players for our rosters ... and in Part 2 (1:46:30), Todd and PD discuss the trades on Monday …